The Last Time We Were All Together

I'll stay a while While the laughter fills my body I'll stay a while In the night Everyone here In the hallways of our always Safe in the walls of our now I'll stay a while Because something portends This is a memory already Before it ends How many more times left In the well of what is thereof If it will ever happen again All that we had, all that we shared We were all We were all No empty chairs, nothing prepared We were all altogether I see the moment We couldn't know it As all those words fell off our tongues It's not like asking When was the last time we were young Out of thin air I see us there We were all We were all All that we had All that we shared For the last time We were all All together Dozens of ornate clocks on the mantle Stopped at every possible time Every place packed full because we save it Panels and combs and perfume Rings like anchors Stop and burn it into my mind Carry my part of the weight that we gave it Magnify the inside Cover all this Tend the vines Turn blood into wine Wade through the decline now to claim it There on both sides of the road In the ditch at the station